Natural gas is already being used as ways to replace things we already use on a daily basis. Lets take oil that is taken from the ground and then turned into gas that we use to fuel our cars on. They are making cars that run on natural gas . They take an engine and modify it so that all it needs to run is natural gas that could be in a gas form or in a liquid form like we use now to fuel our cars. But there is company in Silicon Valley, California who is now trying to take natural gas and transform it into a liquid gas that would work with a cars engine that runs on gas made from oil. That would mean you get the same sort of power you get now from a gas car but you would be leaving a smaller carbon footprint that you get from a natural gas car. What Mr. Scher is trying to do is he is taking Methane and runs it through a system of pipes and adds it to a catalyst which of all things is made from a virus that has be modified. When the two are mixed there is no energy need from anywhere to convert Methane into Ethylene with this catalyst because it doesn't consume any energy. Ethylene is used in many petrochemicals, which than can be converted into things like gasoline, diesel or jet fuel through this process that has be created. With gas set to climb back up again this process could and will help to keep gas prices low. It only costs about fifteen dollars to make a barrel of this stuff and when crude oil is eight times that price people will begin to look into this process even more.
This claim in the article is that natural gas is moldable and can be used to power things that we use today. This is being done by changing it from one thing to another and giving us the same thing but with less backlash than we get now. They are including how they are going to make gas at a cheaper cost than what gas made from oil and how they are planning on doing this because so far from what they have been able to come up with it is working and they are able to make gas from natural gas and it is cleaner than gas made from oil. This claim is that natural gas can replace other fuels out there that we use all we have to do is think about how we could use it differently and this is what is being done and so far it is working.
Woody, Todd. The Atlantic: How to Turn Cheap Natural Gas into Low-Carbon Gasoline. 24 May, 4 Feb. 2015.
Your summary was very well done. I can tell you understood what you read and could explain it in your own words.
ReplyDeleteTry to be more specific. For example, you said "this is being done by changing it from one thing to another" let us know what is being changed and what it is being changed into (if possible). Also, I think he wants us to write these in third person. Other than that great job :)
Drew Stewart
ReplyDeleteThe length and depth you went into to summarize this article is very nice. It helps the reader understand far more with the minimal knowledge that they have beginning to read this summary. A lot of articles are short so this was a nice change and worth the read.